Unused indexes warrant an evaluation for several reasons. It can be a red flag that the MySQL Optimizer is not choosing to use the index, meaning that the index is not worth the effort to use. Additionally, unused indexes can take up valuable disk space. In MySQL 5.7.7, the sys schema was introduced to make […]
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